
Andrew Jefford
Andrew Jefford has written for Decanter magazine since 1988. His monthly magazine column is widely followed, and he also writes occasional features and profiles both for the magazine and for Decanter.com. He has won many awards for his work, including eight Louis Roederer Awards and eight Glenfiddich Awards. He was Regional Chair for Regional France and Languedoc-Rossillon at the inaugural Decanter World Wine Awards in 2004, and has judged in every edition of the competition since, becoming a Co-Chair in 2018. After a year as a senior research fellow at Adelaide University between 2009 and 2010, Jefford moved with his family to the Languedoc, close to Pic St-Loup. He also acts as academic advisor to The Wine Scholar Guild.
Roederer awards 2016: International Wine Columnist of the Year
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What’s changing in Cava
With its distinct sense of terroir, Cava made from Catalonia’s indigenous grape varieties is something we should all be drinking now, says Andrew Jefford
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Jefford on Monday: The white question
Is Priorat on the verge of change?...
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Jefford on Monday: The good and the right
Andrew Jefford explores personal taste...
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Jefford on Monday: Talent under the cosh
Career-threatening hailstorms and identity in Beaujolais...
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Andrew Jefford – ‘The greatest wines often have a lovely unloveliness at their heart’
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Jefford on Monday: The Georgia Connection
Andrew Jefford interviews a professor of ancient wine...
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Jefford on Monday: Tasting history
Andrew Jefford tastes 19 vintages from the Morey-St Denis Grand Cru vineyard of Clos de Tart...
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Andrew Jefford – ‘Wine is hard to unearth in France’s present-day cultural identity’
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Jefford on Monday: The Tuscan Original
Wine is full of colossal pretensions, but not here...
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Jefford on Monday: Languedoc’s cool kid
Andrew Jefford explores Pic St Loup...
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Jefford on Monday: Slovenia’s dream white
Andrew Jefford tastes Rebula...
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Jefford on Monday: The advent of AdVini
The rise of France's fourth largest wine company...
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Jefford on Monday: Forward in doubt
Andrew Jefford interviews Gaia Gaja...
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Jefford on Monday: The ethnologist in the cellar
Making wine for the common good: a Languedoc co-operative...
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Jefford on Monday: Britain’s Brexit hangover
Andrew Jefford on the Brexit squeeze facing wine...
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Jefford: Guerrilla guide to drinking wine – Part four
Don't believe everything you've heard...
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Jefford: The guerrilla guide to wine places – Part three
Why location matters?...
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Jefford: The guerrilla guide to making wine – Part two
A nonconformist guide to making wine...
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Jefford: The guerrilla guide to wine – Part one
Make your own mind up...
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Jefford on Monday: Secrets of the Quilt
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Jefford on Monday: Profiling prince charming
Andrew Jefford explores Vacqueyras...
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Jefford on Monday: Europe’s screwcap kings
Andrew Jefford visits Franconia...
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Jefford on Monday: Desperately seeking Silvaner
Andrew Jefford hunts down wines to try...
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Jefford on Monday: Wine stories
Why don't wine writers tell more stories?
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